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Capilano factory gets new lease of life

The Capilano chief executive, Ben McKee, says the company's previously unstaffed Maryborough factory will be used to process honey for the next few months.

The factory will be partially reopened after a fire damaged the company's Brisbane plant.

In 2010, the company announced it would be moving all its operations to Maryborough.

However, the factory has been unstaffed for a year after processing operations were moved elsewhere.

Mr McKee says there may be local jobs opening up in the short-term.

"At the moment we've sent some staff members from here but as we unravel our exact plans we might need to draw on some resources from the local area in the short-term but it'd only be one or two people probably," he said.

He says the Maryborough plant will act as a back-up facility to heat honey for the next few months.

"We'll send some honey down and we'll also, we get a lot of our honey from South Australia and Victoria and we'll use Maryborough as a staging point to accumulate that honey and liquefy it and send it to Brisbane for decanting processing," he said.